Pier board

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So last winter the pier in pismo took a serious beating and it's being torn down and rebuilt.

I've got a batch of boards I plan to build from the rubble.

Some of the wood is high quality but it's been far too long tracking it down so I figured I'd build a board that would display the life the pier has seen. Some still beautiful and some that's failed and beaten by the weather.

It will probably spend most of its life on a wall pointing to the cities past but not until it's had a few sessions under the pier that is replacing it.

Probably gonna be a slow build but I figured I'd document it for those that are interested.

I rescued some timber from a pier getting removed near me a few years ago. It was super heavy and I assumed it was just sodden wet. Got it home and dried out in the work shop for a few weeks. Excited to start the table and went to cut it, ruined a saw and a circular saw blade and then realised it was green heart. It's still sitting where it got stacked..... Sometimes romantic ideas get halted by an unworkable wood.